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Post by mainejeff on Jan 20, 2022 10:36:54 GMT -5
MAAC needs to change its footprint. Adding more small budget, shitty facility schools from the NEC does not make the MAAC better. Unfortunately, you are probably spot on predicting Ensor will raid the NEC. Ensor has been a complete failure as commissioner and the cheap ass MAAC Presidents keep him around. Go D1 or go D3 And who’s to say the CAA is done raiding the MAAC? And on that note...... www.newsday.com/sports/college/stony-brook-caa-hofstra-1.50481959Could Iona join Monmouth in the CAA? America East might lose Albany as well. If I were Maine, UNH and Vermont....I'd be begging the Patriot for inclusion at this point. You might get UMBC and/or NJIT (I've heard that NJIT is actively looking at the MAAC).
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Post by nomar33 on Jan 20, 2022 11:04:59 GMT -5
Posting links to subscription based articles doesn’t work (at least for me).
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Post by mainejeff on Jan 20, 2022 11:08:34 GMT -5
Posting links to subscription based articles doesn’t work (at least for me). "According to published reports, Stony Brook is only one piece of the puzzle. The CAA also is looking to bring on Monmouth from the Metro Atlantic and Hampton from the Big South. The move would be geared largely toward men’s basketball. Other schools could be in play, among them Albany of the America East and Iona of the Metro Atlantic. To add coach Rick Pitino’s Gaels would be considered an impressive addition."
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Post by shooter on Jan 25, 2022 12:37:45 GMT -5
Official as of this morning. The CAA might not be done expanding. The A-East absolutely must expand and it very well may look to the MAAC to do so.
With the impending retirement of Rich Ensor and all this happening simultaneously, make no mistake that this is an inflection point for the conference. Everything from long-term stability to dissolution is on the table.
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Post by leo16 on Jan 25, 2022 17:58:56 GMT -5
Unless the MAAC is somehow able to convince two of either Drexel, LaSalle, and St. Joe's to move, and make Philly similar to Buffalo with scheduling, I'm not sure there's any scenario the MAAC raises it's profile.
I don't think any MAAC schools would go to the America East. Iona and Siena would probably aspire for the A10. I'd think Marist and Fairfield would be more inclined to try for the Patriot League.
If the NEC loses two schools to the AE and two to the MAAC, they're in serious trouble.
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Post by shooter on Feb 2, 2022 14:52:35 GMT -5
A-East bans Stony Brook from all conference tournaments the rest of the school year, pursuant to their bylaws. Too bad the MAAC has no such rule, it'd be humorous to stick it to Monmouth in such a petty fashion.
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Post by mainejeff on Feb 3, 2022 7:06:33 GMT -5
A-East bans Stony Brook from all conference tournaments the rest of the school year, pursuant to their bylaws. Too bad the MAAC has no such rule, it'd be humorous to stick it to Monmouth in such a petty fashion. Stony Brook throwing a public hissy fit over this and threatening to sue the league....this despite Stony Brook voting to ban Boston University back in 2013 when they left for the Patriot League. And now SBU goes to another "petty" league.....the CAA....which banned JMU last fall after they announced their intention to move to the Sunbelt.
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Post by nomar33 on Feb 3, 2022 7:11:01 GMT -5
Disagree with HISSY fit - this doesn’t hurt the school, it hurts the kids who have a limited time to accomplish something in college and if they are 17-2 in first place during their senior year then that is it for them. I like that the school fights for them.
Or you be like Marist who didn’t say a work when Ensor just randomly awarded Rider the Championship.
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Post by mainejeff on Feb 3, 2022 12:08:23 GMT -5
Disagree with HISSY fit - this doesn’t hurt the school, it hurts the kids who have a limited time to accomplish something in college and if they are 17-2 in first place during their senior year then that is it for them. I like that the school fights for them. Or you be like Marist who didn’t say a work when Ensor just randomly awarded Rider the Championship. No....it was a complete hissy fit. They also threw Hartford under the bus publicly.....like a school that is dropping to D3 already and was told bu the league they would have to leave a year early really needs more grief from a man baby AD at another school.
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Post by shooter on Feb 18, 2022 17:42:19 GMT -5
the new tea is Bryant, Quinnipiac, Fairfield and either LIU or CCSU to the A-East.
The MAAC is in big trouble and may have to talk NEC merger...this would make Siena and Iona vomit.
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Post by fox94 on Feb 18, 2022 18:03:01 GMT -5
A East sucks why would the CT schools join that?
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Post by nomar33 on Feb 18, 2022 18:31:08 GMT -5
Source?
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Post by stratusvolt11 on Feb 18, 2022 19:29:52 GMT -5
No doubt in my mind it'll be Fairfield
I have one eye on the Fair/SP game on ESPNU and they just showed renderings of the Convocation Center. The current ETA for completion is just in time for next season.
I'd be lying if I said I wasn't simultaneously jealous and sick to my stomach that Marist is getting left in the dust in the MAAC arms race
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Post by leo16 on Feb 19, 2022 11:03:02 GMT -5
I guess someone does care about Commissioner Cups, although Rider did win one year. Rice followed it up with "They’re gonna miss Monmouth competing in the MAAC. It ain’t the other way around.”
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Post by yankee on Feb 21, 2022 15:55:36 GMT -5
the new tea is Bryant, Quinnipiac, Fairfield and either LIU or CCSU to the A-East. The MAAC is in big trouble and may have to talk NEC merger...this would make Siena and Iona vomit. poster on maac board today did have a bit of a cryptic post about future moves about to happen. Some poster from Maine.
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